Agent #08 · The Paymaster

Payroll without the panic.
Every time. On time.

The Paymaster automates calculations, payslip generation, and HMRC submissions — ensuring every contractor and employee is paid accurately, compliantly, and on schedule. Without you lifting a finger.

Run payroll automatically ← All agents

Your payroll runs itself
every Friday

The Paymaster follows an automated payroll calendar. Once configured, it runs independently — from timesheet import through to payslip delivery and HMRC RTI submission. Your only job is to review the summary email.

✓ Handles weekly, bi-monthly, and monthly pay cycles simultaneously
✓ Calculates holiday pay, statutory sick pay, and maternity pay automatically
✓ Submits RTI to HMRC within minutes of payroll completion

✓

Thursday 16:00

Timesheets Imported

Automatically pulled from Ledger Agent and manager portal

47 timesheets · 1,882 total hours · £94,100 gross wages this period

✓ Complete

✓

Thursday 16:04

Calculations Run

PAYE, NIC, student loan, pension, and holiday pay calculated

0 anomalies detected · Tax codes verified against HMRC records · 3 new starters processed

✓ Complete

⟳

Friday 07:00

Payslips Generated & Sent

Individual payslips generated and emailed to every worker

Sending 47 payslips via encrypted portal · Estimated completion: 07:02

⟳ Running

Friday 07:15

BACS File Submitted to Bank

Payment file sent to bank for Friday BACS run

Scheduled

Friday 08:00

RTI Submitted to HMRC

Full Payment Submission filed via Government Gateway

Scheduled

Professional payslips delivered automatically

Every payslip is generated in real time, branded to your firm, and delivered via a secure worker portal. No printing, no posting, no chasing.

✓ Workers access all historic payslips via a secure mobile portal
✓ PDF and digital formats with your agency branding
✓ P60 and P45 generated automatically at year-end and on leaving

Quake Recruit Ltd

Payslip · Week 23 · 31 May 2024

James Okonkwo

NI: AB 12 34 56 C · Tax Code: 1257L

Employee #1042
Payroll ref: QRK-W23

Basic Pay (40h × £65) £2,600.00

Holiday Pay (12.07%) £314.00

Income Tax (PAYE) −£584.00

Employee NIC (8%) −£233.00

Pension (5% AE) −£130.00

Take-home Pay £1,967.00

£1,967.00

Paid to account ending 4412 · 31 May 2024

Built for UK payroll compliance

RTI Submission on Autopilot

Full Payment Submissions filed to HMRC via Government Gateway within minutes of every payroll run. Employer Payment Summaries handled automatically at month end.

Pension Auto-Enrolment Built In

Assesses worker eligibility each pay period. Enrols eligible workers, manages opt-outs, and submits contributions to NEST, People's Pension, or your own scheme.

IR35 & Off-Payroll Compliance

Manages inside-IR35 contractors via the PAYE umbrella pathway. Tracks SDC assessments and ensures the correct deductions on all off-payroll workers.

Everything payroll needs

Multiple Pay Cycles

Weekly, bi-monthly, four-weekly, and monthly — run simultaneously for different worker groups. Each cycle fully independent with its own calendar.

Multi-Currency Payroll

Pay contractors in GBP, EUR, and USD simultaneously. Exchange rates fetched in real time. Handles overseas worker tax treaties automatically.

Exception Alerts Before Run

Flags tax code changes, new starter errors, and unusual deductions before the payroll runs — not after. Gives you 24 hours to review and correct.

Worker Self-Service App

Workers submit expenses, view payslips, and update bank details through a secure app — eliminating your finance admin queries entirely.

Accounting Sync

Posts payroll journals directly to Xero and QuickBooks after every run. Your finance team sees the same figures as your payroll team — instantly.

Year-End & P60 Automation

P60s generated and distributed automatically in April. Leavers receive P45s within 24 hours. Year-end returns filed to HMRC without manual intervention.

Track Record

Founders Who Have Already Built and Sold Payroll.

The Paymaster isn't theoretical. It was designed by founders who built Shape Payroll from scratch, scaled it to thousands of businesses, and sold it — before sitting down to automate everything they learned into this agent.

2022

Acquired by Cipher

Founded and scaled a modern payroll platform serving thousands of contracting businesses — handling PAYE runs, auto-enrolment, RTI submissions, and multi-currency contractor payments. Built to solve the exact problems The Paymaster automates today. Exited to Cipher in 2022.

Direct predecessor · Every Paymaster feature was informed by running payroll for real businesses at scale

2019

Acquired by The Access Group

Built and scaled a category-defining recruitment website and CRM platform across APAC, Europe and the UK. Exited to The Access Group — one of the UK's largest software companies — establishing the founding playbook this team now applies to AI.

Two Exits, One Conviction

Deep recruitment-domain scar tissue plus a proven ability to build, scale and sell. Quake is the third act — deploying frontier AI into the payroll and recruitment workflows this team knows better than anyone.

One Governed API

Every agent runs on the same
headless recruitment API.

Quake Core ships as a fully-documented OpenAPI 3.1 platform — every recruitment object, AI agent and workflow is addressable through one governed API. This is the surface enterprises deploy AI into.

135

REST Operations

API Endpoints

102

Typed Schemas

Granular OAuth Scopes

Full Domain Coverage

Candidates Jobs Clients Contacts Placements Job Submissions Job Applications Job Leads Skills Graph AI Agents / GPT Custom Entities Notes Tags Search Users Apps

Built for Enterprise

OAuth 2.0 · Two Flows

App-scoped client-credentials and user-delegated authorization-code, native to enterprise identity.

75 Granular Scopes

Fine-grained read / write / admin permissions per resource for least-privilege access.

Event-Driven Webhooks

Real-time event subscriptions push changes straight into existing enterprise systems.

Multi-Tenant Isolation

Dataset-scoped, tenant-managed catalogs keep every customer's data sovereign.

The Team

The Team Behind Quake

Serial recruitment-tech founders with multiple exits, joined by the engineering and capital to deploy frontier AI across the global staffing market.

Robert Wilde

Chief Executive Officer

Two-time recruitment-tech founder with back-to-back exits — Volcanic (acquired by The Access Group, 2019) and Shape Payroll (acquired by Cipher, 2022). Applying that operator playbook to AI deployment.

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